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Merit-based selection of bureaucrats is central to state capacity building, yet rare in developing countries. Most executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory to explain when executives forsake patronage for...
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This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China’s consumption has been low and investment high. It finds that the low cost of capital has been quantitatively an important factor. Theory predicts that the price of capital may have been significantly...
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The paper reviews India’s macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The first section briefly summarizes key … to deal with the challenge of the unprecedented surge in external capital inflows into India. The final section outlines … India in macroeconomic policy and coping with a weak international economic environment. -- Economic growth ; inflation …
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India’s emergence in the world economy over the last decade, has often, in popular discourse, been attributed, at least … present an overview of India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s technological … capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s economic progress. Our conclusion is that while India has …
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manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
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This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India … (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for 97 industries at the 4-digit disaggregate level was computed for … the period 1990-91 to 2003-04. The study identifies 31 industries as ‘labor intensive industries’ within India’s organized …
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This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to …
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Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should...
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estimates the short and long run elasticities of India's trade. This brings out the need for structural reforms in raising the …
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